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May 10, 2012 Giveaway: $250 Lowe's Gift Card We tend to think of Mother's Day as a given, something that's as old as motherhood itself. Nope. The first attempts to get Mother's Day go...

April 23, 2012 Tool Testers Win Free Vegas Trip Wow! We had more than 660 entries in HANDY's third annual Top Tool Tester Contest. Each submission included photos of the entrant's primo proj...

April 05, 2012 Giveaway: Craftsman 22-In. Mower The beauty of today's giveaway is this: You'll fully understand the value of this sweepstakes prize, summed up in just four words: Craftsman m...

March 07, 2012 "The Porta John" & More DIY Music We gotta give it up for Biscuit Joint who performs songs about the jobsite. BJ sings at trade shows (such as the International Builders Show) and has ...

March 01, 2012 Giveaway: New Delta Scroll Saw We love it when we scoop the market with our giveaway prizes. Get this: The Delta 20-in. Variable Speed Scroll Saw, Model 40-695, is so new (it's ...

February 20, 2012 Wanted in Vegas: 4 Tool Testers! "Had a ball and enjoyed meeting and working with everyone! Still can't believe it happened to me! What a great experience!" —Susan...

February 13, 2012 Test Tools in Vegas, Free (Maybe) This is our contest's third year, so you can say we're on a roll! It's HANDY's annual Top Tool Tester Contest. Enter now and you could...

February 02, 2012 Sick of Winter? Sink Into This It's a no-brainer that there's such a hubbub about home-and-garden shows this time of year. People have had it with the dormancy, darkness and dreary ...

January 26, 2012 Giveaway: A Big-Screen HDTV It's appropriate to end our historic HANDY TOOLBOX Super Sweeps Week (a TWO-giveaway week!) with the prize in today's Big-Screen Sweepstakes. After al...

January 19, 2012 2 Videos: Tool Rap & Toilet Trauma We applaud home improvement manufacturers when they hit us with some edgy humor in their promotional videos. Two examples: DeStorm is "...

January 05, 2012 Giveaway: It Throws Snow 35 Ft. We have one wish with our first sweepstakes of the new year: that the sky doesn't dump a dozen inches of snow on the winner before he or she receives ...

December 22, 2011 Best Version of "Deck the Halls" We tried mightily to come up with a HANDY TOOLBOX holiday greeting that wasn't hokey, yet true to the DIY world and the season. But frankly, visions o...

December 08, 2011 Giveaway: DeWalt 4-Tool Combo Kit Our special holiday giveaway will ensure that one of you lucky TOOLBOX readers will have a very "MAXy" Christmas. We're talkin' 20V MAX because the pr...

November 23, 2011 Drywalling With Tim the Toolman If you've ever drywalled, you'll get a kick out of this challenge between Tim the Toolman Taylor and his sidekick, Al. Tim feels smug as he opens the ...

November 17, 2011 Giveaway: 6 Award-Winning Prizes The 2011 HANDY Innovation Award winners are tickled pink about the honor. It's become a big deal in the DIY industry, so they want to brag it up a bit...

October 31, 2011 Our 5 Funniest DIY T-Shirts Handy people have a huge sense of humor that can't be measured (get it?), and some of us wear our DIY funny bone on our T-shirts. We've taken the libe...

October 20, 2011 Giveaway: Blower-Shredder-Vacuum Think twice before entering this giveaway. Don't bother if you want to take your sweet time raking and bagging leaves because you love soaking in the ...

October 06, 2011 Vote for HANDY Innovation Award Each year, HANDY Magazine editors do the DIY world a good deed by presenting the HANDY Innovation Awards. The editors earmark new tools and products t...

October 03, 2011 If Jimmy Fallon Wore Workpants ... Jimmy Fallon wears suit pants, which work for his line of work. Fallon's guest for his late-night TV show (seen in this hilariously awkward video) is ...

September 22, 2011 Giveaway: Two Go-To Bosch Tools There are tools that you have, and then there are tools that you use. The ones you use are your go-to tools; you grab them when you're off to a job an...

September 06, 2011 Red Green, Women and Handymen Red Green can come off as a crazy ol' coot, but he's crazy like a fox. He says and does the darnedest things, and yet in the midst of it he'll drop in...

August 25, 2011 Giveaway! 3 DIY-Tailgating Prizes A typical DIYer day: Projects Projects Projects (Who says DIYers can't have fun?) ...

August 04, 2011 Giveaway: JawSaw, Trimmer, Blower Think of your yard as a lion that needs weekly taming. Most of us are going about the task armed only with a chair (the mower), but to really whip tha...

August 01, 2011 The Toolman's Gut-Buster Video! When we hear the word "guarantee," we back off and check our wallets. And we are even more dubious when we hear that a video is a guaranteed gut-buste...

July 27, 2011 Giveaway: 105 Acres of Pure Fun! Many of us are farmers or grew up farming and find tractor pulls — with all that raw power and diesel smoke of competing pullers — to be thrilling. Wh...

July 15, 2011 Giveaway: Festool Drill/Driver! Actually, we shouldn't beat around the bush — just send you directly to the Sweepstakes entry page. Because, really, nothing needs to be said when the...

June 30, 2011 Dangerous Dog Jokes for DIYers Many DIYers protect their valuable shop tools with the help of a dog that's always noisy, often big and usually mean-looking enough to make bad guys t...

June 17, 2011 Giveaway: a John Deere Mower What we like about our June Giveaway is that it really hits home. This John Deer JS46 self-propelled walk-behind mower is the right product at just th...

June 02, 2011 Shop Humor: Origins of Celibacy During his first three years of marriage, Frank — a big DIYer — tackled several huge home-improvement projects. At first, Frank's wife Pat loved how t...

May 31, 2011 5 Reasons to Join Us on Facebook We love talkin' tools, projects and all things home related. If you've got an insatiable appetite for home improvement and tool talk, then you'll be i...

May 26, 2011 Marvel at This Musical Ramp You're looking at a long holiday weekend and you're good with wood, so watch this video on an awesome wooden musical ramp. It may inspire you to try n...

May 23, 2011 Heavy Equipment Playground: Dig It We would never encourage DIYers to dig themselves into a hole when they go to Las Vegas — until now. We're not talking about the casinos but the new D...

May 20, 2011 Giveaway: Win a Thrill Grill! We're calling this our Thrill Grill for two reasons: Think of the thrill it would be to win our Stok Quattro Grill Swee...

May 09, 2011 The Vegas Test: Impact Wrench Tool manufacturers gotta be pretty confident in their new tools to put them up for micro-analysis by our four Top Tool Testers. Recall that the fearso...

April 29, 2011 Wanted: 3 Winners for 1 Giveaway For the merry month of May, we've gone away from the standard "winner takes all" giveaway that we — along with Handy Hal (pictured) an...

April 18, 2011 Most Mesmerizing Chainsaw Video We can't tell you why, exactly, but we found ourselves locked into this video. There's not a man or women in sight, so the human-interest angle is not...

April 15, 2011 Shop Humor: What's So Funny About Taxes? Let's try to stay positive as we approach paying taxes on Monday. For a distraction this weekend, find a project, fix something, repair, remodel, do y...

March 23, 2011 What Happens in Vegas ... Gets Published! The TOOLBOX and the Handyman Club of America have selected four Top Tool Testers to try out the latest tools and offer feedback from the Product Test ...

March 17, 2011 A St. Patrick's Day Pick-Me-Up With a bit o' luck, you may shut down the shop a wee bit early to celebrate St. Patty's Day. We'll join in, but we're skipping the green-beer-inspired...

March 09, 2011 Birdfeeder Humiliates Squirrels Squirrels humiliate us, openly. Day after day, these twitchy little twerps get the better of us. Even in winter, when there aren't many live plants to...

March 03, 2011 Tip: Fix Ice Dams with Pantyhose Talk about the winter of our discontent! With record snowfalls and frigid temperatures all over the country, this is it! And that big snow can lead to...

February 14, 2011 DIY Valentine: 2 Adirondacks on a Beach Never call us DIYers unromantic! Not only can we create this sort of dream scene on the beach (or at least in the garage), we also are the only romant...

February 07, 2011 How Did That Nail Get There? Good question. There's no hole in the wood "finger" on the far left; and the space between each finger is too small to insert the nail through holes i...

February 03, 2011 Great Party Needs a Great Grill Here's a little secret about DIYers: Behind that measured, methodical, nothing-musters-me façade of folks who fix up their homes, there lurks a party ...

January 24, 2011 Juggling Chainsaws ... or Not Don't know whether it's authentic, but this Discovery Channel video hooks you right off the bat with the following claim: ...

January 10, 2011 Taking a Limp Duck to the Vet A man took his limp duck to the vet, who listened for the bird's pulse with her stethoscope. "Sorry, your bird's dead." "Y...

January 06, 2011 Vegas, Free for 4 Tool Testers! The TOOLBOX is teaming up with the Handyman Club of America in selecting four tool buffs — our Fantastic Foursome — to join us at the 2011 National Ha...

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